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This lively text helps students understand how play, games, sport, and physical education evolved in western civilization. Using several interpretive frameworks, students explore topics such as the mind/body relationship, urbanization, industrialization, modernization, impact of technology, and politics, and their effect on sport and physical education throughout history. New texts now come packaged with PowerWeb: Health & Human Performance!

Section 1 Ancient Civilizations

1 History and Philosophy in Sport and Physical Education 2 Sumer, Egypt, and China

3 Greece

4 Rome

Section 2 From the Spiritual World to the Secular World: Changing Concepts of the Body